15 computer science collegians looking for a project

[NoiseEHC]

Actually it is a funny proposal since without real XO machines it is a 
little bit hard to profile programs and since it seems that it is quite 
impossible nowadays to get a machine, they are out of luck. Exactly why 
does not OLPC just dump machines to developers like candy? Even if only 
1% of people do something about performance, it could be more cost 
effective than hiring 1 man for it (and the XO badly needs this work).

BTW if you referring to this
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-March/012033.html
or this
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2006-September/000439.html
then these are not easy and fast things either.

Walter Bender wrote:
> Any interest in the themes/topics Tomeu outlined in his email about
> Sugar performance? Lots of interesting things to explore that would be
> of real value to the project.
>
> -walter
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Patrick Jahenr
> <patrick.jahner at stud.fh-swf.de> wrote:
>   
>> Hi there,
>>
>>  We are a group of 15 collegians, studying 'Applied Computer Science'
>>  at the University of Applied Sciences in Iserlohn (Germany) and we
>>  are looking for a project for the OLPC within the scope of our subject
>>  "Computer-Networks". Our professor (Prof. Martin Hühne) let us choose
>>  our own topic, leading us directly to our first problem: What can
>>  we do?
>>
>>  We have to find a project fitting to this demand. We read the wiki
>>  and realised, that most of our ideas we thought we could implement
>>  are either finished software projects or simply not good enough to
>>  keep on thinking about them, because they do not fit to the OLPC-
>>  ideas. The wiki pages for Project ideas are nice, but you do not
>>  know exactly whether there is already someone working on one of the
>>  projects, or not. The Pages for Current Projects are quite nice too,
>>  but there you do not know if the people working on it actually do
>>  need help.
>>
>>  That is why we post this little request to the readers of this mailing
>>  list.
>>
>>  We are looking for either a project we can take part on, or a not-
>>  yet-implemented idea. It should not bee too big for us in order to
>>  be finished within time; it should not be too small to have something
>>  to do for 15 students. (Anyway, don't forget we need to sleep)
>>  It would be nice, but not all necessary if the project could involve
>>  some of the networking technologies of the XO, I mean, the subject
>>  is "Computer-Networks"
>>
>>  Furthermore, there is a time limit: We will have to end the project
>>  until end of June, whereas there will be the same subject for another
>>  group of students after our free period, which will have the same,
>>  or a similar task. Probably, they will go on, on our project, if
>>  its not finished.
>>
>>  Our Knowledge Base:
>>  We have good basic knowledge in C/C++, Java, some basic knowledge
>>  in scripting languages (Perl, PHP and bash) and some of us have good
>>  knowledge of Linux. A further subject called "Software-Engineering"
>>  came along with us for one and a half year.
>>  We started reading and working in Python and GTK, and saw, we can
>>  cope that.
>>
>>  We are open for all your suggestions, you can email me directly if
>>  you have a project we can take part on, but you could also just answer
>>  here, if you have a good idea which of the project ideas we could
>>  implement.
>>
>>  Thank you in advance,
>>
>>
>>  Patrick
>>
>>
>>  P.S. Please forgive me my English skills
>>
>>
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